The moon is dark and the wind is high.

The ditches of Longzhou City are still dry.

In the night, in the south of Longzhou City, hundreds of sturdy black shadows were climbing quickly in the trenches.

This is true of the east and the west.

Ma Cheng, like his companions, wore a light leather armor covered with a black suit, and it was difficult to distinguish from far away at night.

He carried a simple knife on his back, a bow in his hand, light as a cat, and gradually, he arrived under the city wall of Longzhou.

The newly built earthen city was only a few feet high, and even, the coughing of the enemy troops on the top of the city could already be heard.

Ma Cheng carefully took off the bow on his back, and selected a specific tactical arrow from the quiver, this kind of arrow, among the archers of the Shenwu Army, only the squad leader is equipped, and it is a precious object like gold.

Of course, for the Shenwu Army, the division of troops is not so strict, such as Ma Cheng's class, although most of the time is spent on arrow training, but melee combat is also the top priority.

In fact, Ma Cheng was even more envious of the crossbowmen in the army, the cold steel crossbows were only equipped by the Son of Heaven and the forbidden army of the Zhenshu Jing Division, and the hundreds of divine crossbows of the Shenwu Army were barely squeezed out. I heard from the veterans that this kind of divine crossbow is ten times and a hundred times stronger than the previous old-fashioned crossbow, the front sight is particularly accurate, and the shot is far, although the rate of fire is a little slower, but the power is much greater.

Now, this row of crossbowmen has been dozens of steps away from the city wall, rows of crossbow arrows, aimed at the head of the city.

Although there is no moon today, the crossbow in the crossbowman's hand is still covered by black silk, so as not to suddenly appear and reflect the cold light.

Ma Cheng's palms gradually sweated.

The Shenwu Army, has been stationed in Wuhan, it seems that it has not participated in too many wars except for the attack on Shu, but in recent years, the whole army has been training hard, and the "actual combat drills" that are common in the forbidden army are also extremely cruel, Ma Cheng is outstanding in the actual combat drill and was promoted to the team leader, and the original team leader, I heard that he was mistakenly killed by an arrow wearing an arrow in the exercise, it is rumored that every year of the exercise, there will be soldiers sacrificed, but, whether it is true or not, maybe the family members who got the death pension are not clear.

Although it is different from the imaginary life in the military camp, Ma Cheng does not regret joining the army.

Speaking of which, Ma Cheng has always hidden his proud identity from his companions, he is from the land of the Holy Son of Heaven Longxing - the East China Sea, his father Ma Zhuhua, and was once a doctor of scripture in the East China Sea, and later the Holy Son of Heaven ruled the East China Sea Kingdom of the scholar order, but last year, his father has died of old age.

Although the family is wealthy, and several brothers have been admitted to Jinshi and Juren, the second brother, who is the most poor, has also been admitted to Xiucai.

But Ma Cheng has been happy to play war games with the country urchins since he was a child, from pretending to be a king and a thief soldier at the beginning, and then pretending to be a soldier and a southern soldier, the positive and negative roles in the children's war games are also changing.

By this year, before the Shenwu Army left Wuhan and went to Beijing, Ma Cheng had a leave to visit relatives, and he had ten days to say goodbye to the country children after removing the round-trip journey, and the villain in the war game had become "Hu Bing".

Hu soldiers are barbaric, many of them are bad people, they will invade their homes to kill people and set fires, and kidnap their relatives, this is the children's understanding of the barbarians from all directions since childhood, and the positive characters are the soldiers under the grandfather of the Holy Son of Heaven, protecting their hometown. This kind of understanding usually comes from the perfection of the rules of the game by the middle school children in the school hall, and the middle school children in the school hall are often the king of children in the wild when they are free.

Ma Cheng joined the army also has all kinds of mistakes, originally and the family is angry, coupled with the love of guns, is because of the large number of men in the family and is routinely recruited to become a Haizhou military household, he took the initiative to register, to later, outstanding performance, was transferred to the Shenwu Army, but eliminated the military household, forbidden soldiers, not hereditary, but from the state soldiers or the annual recruitment law to recruit the best of the best.

After several years of military camp life, Ma Cheng knew that he had changed a lot, in the past, he just wanted to make contributions, if he could one day go to the Golden Palace to meet the Holy Son of Heaven, then the eight or nine brothers in the family would be suppressed by themselves.

Nowadays, the life in the military camp has changed his understanding of this world a lot, and he wants future generations to be like the Ma family today, a peaceful, stable and lively life, not only to defeat the barbarians from all directions, but also to make the country stable and maintain the unity of the Holy Son of Heaven for all generations.

And this is another duty of the forbidden army.

It is an old antique like his father, and he is not willing to study the new learning, but he also warns the sons of the family every day, he has experienced five generations of changes, and read all the history books of the previous dynasties, but he has never seen such an emperor as the Son of Heaven in this pilgrimage, perhaps, the book recited now is the true words of the sage, the legendary well-off world, is in front of you, and can eventually go to the world of Datong, but the premise is that the bloodline of the Holy Emperor needs to be continued for thousands of generations, so that the holy words of the Holy Son of Heaven will be spread from generation to generation.

Cutting north and recovering Hedong is to re-sow the favor of the Son of Heaven in Hedong, so that the people of Hedong no longer have to become Hu people, cattle and sheep.

At the same time, the external barrier of the Central Plains has been expanded, and the hometown has become safer.

Thinking wildly, Ma Cheng's hands gradually stopped shaking so much, he was not afraid, but the first time he fought with a foreign enemy, fighting with Hu Lu's minions, there was an inexplicable emotion, but thinking back to the scenes in his hometown, his heart gradually settled.

Seeing that the brave men behind him were gradually posing, the vanguard had already untied the long rope of the "Flying Dragon Claw" on his waist.

This is a sharp weapon for climbing the walled city, the vanguard of the Shenwu Army is equipped with a large number of soldiers, I heard that it is specially prepared for some not too high walled cities in the Northern and Western Regions, and the wall of Longzhou City is not very high.

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At the head of Longzhou City, Chen Fengxing yawned, although, in the past two days, Shangguan has repeatedly warned that the Liao lord has died, and a new lord has just been replaced, at the same time, in the territory of Qi State, a large number of military horses have been mobilized, I heard that there is already a trend of encircling Yingzhou, that is, in Liaozhou, one hundred and fifty miles to the southeast, a large number of Qi troops have been gathered, and the light cavalry has been dispatched, and the countryside has spontaneously organized militia groups, and it has been difficult for their own scouts to enter the territory of Qi State.

But Chen Fengxing still felt that everything was very far away from him, since the change of dynasty in the south, it was not at all like the previous week, and he sent soldiers to harass and capture the people around Taiyuan at every turn.

Chen Fengxing is a local, in the past to the Zhou soldiers hated the root of the teeth, when he was a teenager he participated in the countryside spontaneously organized by the township soldiers to resist the intrusion of the Zhou army, after reaching the age of seventeen, and all the men who were full of seventeen in the Northern Han Dynasty, he entered the military register, to the Han lord to build Longzhou City, he and many newly enlisted soldiers, was sent to guard the Longzhou City that has not yet been fully completed, and because he participated in the militia when he was a teenager and was famous for his martial arts, he was gradually promoted, not long ago, he was enshrined in the interior, the commander of the Longzhou Army Hou Barong was promoted as the battalion commander.

Now the vigil at the head of the southern city is one of his battalion soldiers.

However, for several years, they have been at peace with the Qi people, and Chen Fengxing has gradually become tired of the life in the military camp, especially those soldiers whose hometowns are outside the Taiyuan area, and the escape is even more prohibited, the land at home is less cultivated, and the officials are rampant, where can anyone be at ease to defend the border?

In this regard, Chen Fengxing was also a little helpless, the Han land in Hedong was barren and the people were poor, and he had to pay tribute to the Khitan people, that is, he was in a high position, and his annual salary was also reduced by more than half compared with the previous dynasty.

Although the first lord died of illness and the new lord succeeded to the throne, this situation was alleviated, but after all, it was difficult to return.

Chen Fengxing gradually came up with the idea of leaving the army.

Even thinking that if the Qi army came to the city, as long as he gave the order to open the city gate and surrender, he would surrender with him.

As for the night guards who dozed off at the head of the city, Chen Fengxing didn't bother to pay attention to them.

Just as he was sighing, suddenly, there was a sharp sound of breaking the air, and then, with a bang, a spark exploded in mid-air, and immediately lit up half of the city.